Fareed Zakaria GPS. Topics: State of the world and US economies; the potential impact of the “fiscal cliff”; living in hiding from religious extremists; Al Qaeda and its affiliates in northern Africa and around the world; the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. Guests: Lloyd Blankfein, chairman/chief executive of Goldman Sachs; John Chambers, chairman/chief executive of Cisco Systems Inc.; Andrew Liveris, president, chairman, chief executive of the Dow Chemical Co.; Salman Rushdie, author; General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency, CIA. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (CNN)

Meet the Press. Guests: Robert Gibbs, adviser to President Obama’s reelection campaign; former House speaker Newt Gingrich; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican and former governor of California. 10:30 a.m. (7)

This Week in Business. Topics: The latest jobless figures and economic trends and their potential effect on the race for the White House; new efforts to control rising health care costs; fallout from the presidential debate; what the Red Sox should do to turn things around; and the push to move from textbooks to digital books in our nation’s schools. Guests: Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of IHS Global Insight; Andrew Dreyfus, chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. 12:30 p.m. (NECN)